Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expensive private houses, to a painful degree. Only too often membership must either be restricted to the rich, or offered promiscuously to anyone who can help most expenses. The fact that many man have not the means to join not only increases the non-members, but makes the financial burden exorbitant for the chosen few. Thus the position of the so-called "barbarians" on the average college campus has suffered a paradoxical change. No longer a mere aesthetic menace, a fringe of outcasts condescendingly tolerated, they have come to be regarded as heretics who must be lured or snatched back...
...under consideration in the election. Mayor Russell is running on the "Good Government" platform which his opponents have attacked from many angles. The issue of high taxes that dominated the last election no longer is held to be of great importance because the Russell Administration has reduced the tax burden upon the people to an appreciable amount...
...burden of this criticism must be shouldered by a lecture system which operates on the theory that students are constitutionally incapable of absorbing facts from books, and that a Professor must therefore deliver two or three lectures a week in the effort to bolster up whatever opinions he may have with a body of elementary fact. For evidence that the result is horrid, one need only look to such courses as Government 1, History 11, English 28. One might continue; but a typical list would fill a column. Compelled by regulation, and by a false notion of undergraduate capacity...
...already appropriated for emergency employment should be loaned or given outright to needy students without penalties attached in the form of trumped up chore work. In practice, the principle has to be modified, for two reasons: first, that some men would rather work while they are in College than burden themselves with a debt to be paid after graduation; and second, that if the money is given away, it automatically becomes a scholarship, and can go, therefore, only to men in Groups I, II, or III, whereas one of the primary virtues of the Emergency Employment Plan 'is that...
...substance; and having done so, he is not reassured. To a mere club of public ethics this sincere patriot should not trust the destiny of a single Prussian grenadier, and the club itself should not expect him to do so. If war comes, Mr. Hitler will bear a heavy burden of guilt, but in that guilt we cannot include charges of contempt for an organization which weighs so little as the League with its own members, which is to everyone only an ambiguous symbol of pacifism, the receptacle for a shrinking pennyworth of good international intentions...